Corded ware Culture (jan 1, 2800 BC – jan 1, 2500 BC)

Description:

Corded Ware Culture: 2800-2500 BC
- Mainly known from graves
Graves:
- Individual in crouched position on his/her side
- characteristic artifacts are: a stone battle axe; a flint knife; and a ceramic vessel with decoration that looks somewhat like cords and a protruded foot.
- The grave is marked with a round burial mound.

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Corded Ware Culture
(direct predecessors yamnaya)
- 2800-2500 BC
- Only known from burials

- Highly similar burials, which occur in a vast area - from Poland to the Netherlands
- Emerged from the same steppe as the Yamnaya migrants (genetically the same)
- Corded Ware Culture emerged from Yamnaya
steppe migrants
- mostly male


Characteristic graves Corded Ware
- Individual deceased, placed on his/her side, in crouched position
- No more collective graves
- Deceased is buried underneath round burial mound (sometimes placed in long rows)

Characteristic grave gifts :
- Decorated beaker (‘corded’ with protruded foot)
- Stone ‘battle axe’
- Flint axe
- Flint dagger

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